Design Issues: World Water Day 2023 March 22, 2023, is World Water Day, a global campaign led by the United Nations to encourage all of us to take action in our own lives to change the way we use, consume and manage water. As landscape architects and urban designers,...
Design Issues: Addressing The Water Crisis By Conserving, Cleansing And Restoring Natural Systems It can be hard to wrap your head around the fact that 35 states and 112.8 million people in the U.S. are experiencing moderate drought, or worse, according to the...
Central Platte Valley Restoring a River to Engage People in a New Urban Ecology Civitas has prepared roughly 30 projects in Denver’s Central Platte Valley over a 32 year period. This area was rail yards, an inter-modal facility and warehouses when Civitas was founded...
St. Patrick's Island Acting with a Light Touch Downtown Calgary sits astride one of North America’s scenic rivers – The Bow, which reaches from Banff in the Rockies all the way to the Saskatchewan River and Hudson’s Bay. The 30 acre island has been the site of...
North Embarcadero A Working Waterfrontthat Welcomes People The first phase design for San Diego’s waterfront improves the framework of an existing master plan that proposes unique park spaces along this one-mile long edge, called the North Embarcadero. A water quality...
Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park Investing to Changea Challenged Neighborhood Civitas and W Architecture and Landscape Architecture are co-designers for the redevelopment of this 25 acre park which has fallen into deep disrepair. While once a center of community...
